Natarsha Belling

In 2025, he was named Australian of the Year.

Amongst the many tributes this afternoon to Neil was his wife of 41 years, Jane.

The alleged Bondi shooter has been charged with 19 additional offences.

Naveed Akram was initially charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder.

The new charges include discharging a firearm with intent to resist arrest and shooting with intent to murder.

Akram's lawyer said the 24-year-old is yet to enter a plea as the matter is still in its infancy.

In US politics, an oyster farmer has officially become the Democratic candidate to represent the state of Maine in the Senate.

Graham Plattner's election is one of the key votes that could take control of the government away from Trump's Republican Party.

Plattner is a political newcomer.

He was only recruited to run last year and has never held an elected office.

But he's not without controversy.

In the last week, his campaign has been rocked by public revelations that before his campaign started, he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women.

Plattner addressed those controversies in today's Victory Speech.

And researchers have found a connection between smartphones and declining birth rates.

The US National Bureau of Economic Research studied birth rates around the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and found that while birth rates had already been falling, the iPhone was responsible for around 50% of the decline between 2007 and 2011.

The researchers gave three possible explanations that the iPhone was replacing in-person life, that the iPhone provided easier access to pornography and also that the new technology made it easier for people to access information on contraception.

The paper says the effects were strongest among young people.

Now it's time to get into our deep dive on the renewed hostilities in the Middle East.

Any peace deal or ceasefire now seems obsolete as Israel, the US and Iran all launch dangerous new attacks.

We speak with national security expert Jennifer Parker on why we should be concerned about the renewed hostilities and what may happen next.